I wonder if you have a RSS feed, can you change dynamically (every time RSS is generate) a different file URL? Such that it would be like a poor man's load distributer - so your source file will be ...

What is the difference between "network RAM" and "distributed shared memory" (DSM)?
Basically, I know that both of them provide a shared storage on RAM among all the systems in a cluster. So, what is ...

I know that a lot of 3D renderers out there support distributing renders over multiple nodes in a render farm. For an arhictect, rendering a 3d model is not the most common task throughout the day, ...

I heard a 3D modeller say that when he renders a scene he uses multiple machines to do it because simply the hardware is not powerful enough and he is using the collective computational power of more ...

I have a series of server machines which I want to run the same command on. Each command takes hours and (even though I am running the commands using nohup and setting them to run in the background) ...

The distcc FAQ states that there is currently no scheme for balancing or prioritizing hosts. They recommend to simply list the fastest host on top or the list.
The situation here is that the remote ...

These days I am learning PVM technology for concurrent processing. I go through so many blogs, tutorials to understand . Yes, I got some points, but no one gives me clear workflow of how it perform ...

I have the following requirements for a remote process execution/management system and thought I'd ask if anyone had seen something similar available under free software/open source licensing terms ...

I want to set up distributed computing on my Local Area Network consisting a bunch of PCs. Say for the time being each one has the same OS - Windows 7.
Is there any opensource tool available so that ...

My friends and I all have TBs on our system(s). None of us have any full backups which are geographically distributed however, because at that amount of data, solutions such as Dropbox, S3, et al. are ...

I was just wondering how these processes work, in an overarching sense, such as "distributed grep", "distributed compiling", "distributed sort", "distributed file systems", "distributed _"
Are they ...

I have a computer with comparatively weak graphics, and one with comparatively strong graphics. I would like to run a graphics-intensive application on the weaker machine, using the graphics power of ...

With a windows based workstation heavy infrastructure, we have a lot of spare disk space.
I am look about to see if there are any solutions where this space can be used as a sort of distributed NAS.
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I have a lot of hard drives from old computers (6-7 years old). i want to get an external enclosure with USB 3.0 and use them for back up.
To my understanding SimpleBackup copies everything the first ...

Consider the following scenario: you have a team of a few people scattered around the globe that needs to work on the same data. Each member of the team has a copy of the data he needs. When someone ...

I am learning and have some questions about using PBS to submit jobs in a cluster.
(1) If a job is parallelized by MPI and run by mpirun without using qsub, it cab be running on different nodes. So ...

Does anyone know of a current, active solution to encoding x264 videos across many computers (via the network) to increase encoding FPS?
Brownie points for cross-platform and open source, but just so ...